I am no insurance salesman or litigator, but I do believe Silverstone is right here. It is your risk, and you do sign a waiver, but that means nothing. I know a motocross track in ontario ahd a little boy break his back and they sued the track...I am not sure that there is an outcome yet...but the kid and his parent signed the waiver...
In Ontario (and perhaps all of Canada) a parent cannot sign away the rights of a minor child. Period. The value of a waiver is to limit the monetary award if a court finds the track liable. The track could still be forced into expensive litigation - and they likely have insurance to guard against that cost.
I hope they do. Because the damages one would seek fromt hat would be rather large.
usually the isurance only cover decsions made in good faith. is letting a illperpared car and driver on a walled track a descion made in good faith. not a question i would want to wrestle with.
Supposedly the car had a sticker on it that said I am not a street racer get over yourself, which is a little ironic. Anyway someone said he had removed the air bags from the car, isn't that illegal? He had racing seats in the car & he hit so hard the seat was turned sideways & still in shock he tried to get out of the car on his own even with his arm badly broken. After the race Brad Moran wouldn't let us stay late & lock up like he has all year. He was very upset, probably knowing that this is going to be bad. I wonder, could this hurt his deal with NASCAR?
Supposedly the car had a sticker on it that said I am not a street racer get over yourself, which is a little ironic. Anyway someone said he had removed the air bags from the car, isn't that illegal? He had racing seats in the car & he hit so hard the seat was turned sideways & still in shock he tried to get out of the car on his own even with his arm badly broken. After the race Brad Moran wouldn't let us stay late & lock up like he has all year. He was very upset, probably knowing that this is going to be bad. I wonder, could this hurt his deal with NASCAR?
Yea,I hear yah RRRCREW. I don;t thin it will hurt the NASCAR deal, but it could definitely hurt th epocket book..imo if the guy ahs any class he wont pursue anything....or at the very least Brad replace his car or something out of good faith....theres too many people sueing ppl these days.
I am sure Brad is very upset, and I hope legal action is not taken, because the last thing we want to see is a race track suffer, but the guy was hurt pretty badly, and at best, will be off of work for quite a while. Spencer asked in an earlier post what happened, and no one has answered yet, so here goes. From my view point in the pits, the two cars were entering corner 2 with the Acura on the outside and it seems to me that he must have accidently hit his nitrus, because the car seemed to surge ahead, and being front wheel drive was'nt able steer. he ended up hitting the concrete wall head on so hard that it broke it and pushed it in 6 to 8 inches.